Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from East Timor and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Pharoah Sanders to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Malaria! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Vogues,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Radiohead,
Ultra Naté,
Bob Dylan,
Lyres,
The Residents,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Warren Ellis,
The Moody Blues,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Leaves,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Q and Not U,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Black Dice,
The Young Rascals,
Delon & Dalcan,
Surgeon,
Avey Tare,
Girls At Our Best!,
Al Stewart,
Soft Cell,
Easy Going,
Panda Bear,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Scratch Acid,
Outsiders,
Moby Grape,
Yaz,
Khruangbin,
cv313,
The Litter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Black Sheep,
Fear,
DNA,
ABBA,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sound Behaviour,
CMW,
Scion,
Bush Tetras,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Rotary Connection,
Aloha Tigers,
The Martian,
Michelle Simonal,
Goldenarms,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mandrill,
The Flesh Eaters,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Slave,
Lindisfarne,
Quadrant,
Gregory Isaacs,
JFA,
Donny Hathaway,
Ludus,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.